# Fractures at REPUBLIC ROOFING & INSULATION CONTRACTORS LLC
> OSHA SIR `2018099106` · 9/4/2018 · FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway
- **Source:** Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
- **Secondary source:** Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
## Employer
- **Name:** REPUBLIC ROOFING & INSULATION CONTRACTORS LLC
- **Location:** 1450 LEE WAGNER BLVD., FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA, 33315
- **NAICS:** 238160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Two employees were working from an aerial lift to install insulation within the interior walls and roof of an aviation hangar. The lift operator drove it into an existing two-foot deep excavation causing the lift to tip over. Both employees fell out of the lift basket onto the concrete hangar floor. One employee was hospitalized for multiple leg fractures. Both employees were wearing a personal fall arrest system at the time of the incident.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*